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Fibs are the building blocks of Fictitious Books. Fibs are written into every page. They are the deceitful words at the heart of all Fictitious stories: fibs creative online fiction.              fibs fibs fibs

Fibs fictions are disguised in a variety of forms:

blog posts • short stories

flash fiction • novels

fantasy • dystopia

drama • podcasts

essays • mystery

The ten authors creating these imaginary fibs are elusive and difficult to pin down. They have created their own original cover stories. The names of these phantom authors are as fictitious as the books that they write:

Zeb SolitanuOdette Chesnay

Lucy EngellisGeorge Ithaka

Scarlett MoonstoneNaomi Quicke

Sienna RoxladeMichael Scriven

Marec SlivenichIsobel Vellacott

fibs Original Cover Stories

FIBS PUBLICATIONS

Triangles by Lucy Engellis

A Fictitious play in two acts – experience a triangular drama in a penthouse suite in London: at midnight only one of three people can inherit a four billion pound fortune. Who will it be? Francis Maynard-Oakshotte, Ingrid Lindstrom or Stella Bowers?

Downward Spirals by George Ithaka

Daniel Harte, a social science student at the LSE, had from an early age been fascinated by tales of revolutionary violence. So, he didn’t have a moment’s hesitation in accepting the invitation of his best friend Andre Rivette to join him in Paris in May 1968 to witness at first hand the nascent student uprising. What happened in Paris, however, proved to be more complicated and disturbing than the revolutionary scenarios that he had studied in books.  Downward Spirals is a tale of rebellion, love, kidnapping, ransom and imagination.

Magical Miranda by Scarlett Moonstone

In a series of fourteen short stories about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary circumstances, Scarlett Moonstone explores the dilemmas of everyday living in the contemporary world –  Magical Miranda, a Fictitious Books fibs collection of magical tales.

Magical MirandaAquatic SkySplashEurostar KissLightning DropAlternative WorldOscar’s LamentSix DaysThe Camden Strangler ValentineAfter the FloodWildcatMillennium YesterdaysForgetting Zoe

Counterfeit by Michael Scriven

Paul Chandler had thought that being a newspaper reporter would make his life more interesting. And it did. But not in the way he’d expected. Unwittingly involved in a murder and an international counterfeiting operation, he and his best friend Joe, a freelance photographer, soon realise that their lives are in imminent danger as they are drawn relentlessly into an escalating criminal conspiracy that coincides with the outbreak of the Second World War. Counterfeit  is a novel of love, friendship, deception, loss, survival and deliverance that begins on a tranquil beach in Sussex in August 1939 and ends amidst the destruction and carnage of the beaches of Dunkirk in May 1940.

Monsters of Narratokia by Isobel Vellacott

Explore the fantasy world of Isobel Vellacott’s Monsters of Narratokia. Travel with Calypso to Narratokia and experience close up the Isle of Quintaine, the Teeming Ocean on the Moon of Aquatico, the sea of Circularity, the Moon of Troppea, Slitherene Marshes, Stink Hole Caves, the City of Mindloss and the Plains of Dissimulation. Join Calypso on her journeys to Narratokia as she attempts to rescue King Benevol from imprisonment and restore him to his throne. Witness at first hand her struggles to defeat the fire-breathing Rhinotaur, the monstrous Tentaculopod, the awe-inspiring Croculosaurus, the demonic Watchdog, Rottsnarler, and Terrox the Terrible who rules Narratrokia with an iron fist from the Temple of the God Cyclon..

Short Fibs by Michael Scriven

A fictitious assortment of microfiction, flash fiction and short short stories. Each `story’ is designed to encourage the reader to speculate on a variety of imaginative possibilities.

Daylight RobberyMobile EscapeThe Sicilian AlternativeEggExploding LoveFalse DialogueSpecial DayPlagueJigsaw JuliePunch Line FlashLabelsTwo-Faced  • 13 BlackWatershedLudovicMurder Mystery

Anticlockwise Journal  by Zeb Solitanu

Anticlockwise Journal offers a chilling portrait of life in Globopolis, the capital city of the Anticlockwise Empire. The journal was discovered in the secret files of the Globopolis police department. It records the daily life of a citizen called Zeb Solitanu who had been under surveillance by the authorities for several years. Citizen Solitanu was suspected of harbouring and disseminating subversive ideas. Discover a dystopia of fear, nightmares, surveillance, isolation and despair.

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FIBS BLOG POSTS

Fibs blog post are grouped into 5 categories:

ABRACADBRA BLOG FICTION

Blog Fiction: Fictitious Posts and Imaginary Stories

ALIAS ZEB SOLITANU 

Freedom Surrendered: Sleepwalking into an Anticlock Disaster

ANTICLOCKWISE

Open Civil War: Young against Old, Rich against Poor, North against South

Friends and Enemies: Clancy, Tia, Max and Olaf Kaminski

The Great Wall: Countering SafrAntic Terrorism

Max Destino-Coin: Cuban Cigars and an Invitation to Subversion

Coloured Targets: Black, Brown and Yellow Illuminations

Passports and Visas: No Travel Beyond Anticlockwise

Tagging Deviants Electronic Control – Paranoia, Fear and Suspicion

Dialogue of the Deaf: Sign Language in a Surveillance Culture

The Cosmic Scandal: Safrons, Neblings, Farawis and Antics

Feast to Famine; The Lean, Hungry and Dangerous Look

Time To Suffer, Time To Die – Killer Ball The Ultimate Sacrifice

The Safrox Plague: Unleashing a Deadly Virus against the `Undesirables’

Waxwork Idols: Who’s Afraid of General Terrevotox?

Heart Attack: The Excruciating Pain of Dying before Your Time

The Spider State: Surviving in a Tangled Web of Oppression

Checkmate versus Chequered Flags: Independence Illusions in Estrellaxia

`One Two Three Bang!’ Dicing with Death on Danger Walk Turboplex

Spirian Altra: The Future Foretold

BEYOND INFINITY

Lightning Link: Communicating with Outer Neblusians

Orphans and Exiled Families: Divided Anticlock and Safronikan Identities

Unidentified Flying Object: Gigantic Fireball above Infinity Gateway

Exile in Isolium: Banishment to the Faraway Galaxy

Berriana’s Story: An Illegal Immigrant on Outer Neblus

Life Extinction: Crime and Punishment on Terranona

You Only Die Twice: Epitaph to a Friend – Dying and Remembering

LOOKING OUTSIDE IN

Governments Tricksters Demagogues: The Rise and Fall of Dethko

Long-Eyed Lasers: War, Robotic Engineering and Crime

Written in the Stars: Astrology, Horoscopes and Unexpected Events

The Disorganised Daydreamer: Financial Disaster and Eli Lately

The Condemned of Extoxia: The Dehumanisation of Sonderlyne

Purple Pointed Hats: Images of Oppression and Conformity

Monsters and Monstrous Thoughts: Narratok and Anticlock Nightmares

Snowflakes in Fire: The Unbearably Bitter Tears of Reality

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